Recent turmoil at the Southern Baptist Convention's International Mission Board is sure to continue after messengers voted to refer a blogging trustee's recommendation to investigate the trustees to the trustees themselves.
Wade Burleson's blogging launched a movement of "irenic conservatives" that helped get Frank Page elected president of the SBC, but messengers refused to call for an external investigation of the backroom politicking among trustees at the IMB.
There is probably some wisdom in the convention's decision. The leadership of every board and agency has been either involved in or elected by backroom politicking for more than 25 years. If the Convention ever begins investigating the backroom, secretive and manipulative politics within the SBC since the fundamentalist takeover, it would never end.
Perhaps the "irenic conservatives" can inaugurate an era of openness and forthrightness within the Convention. Open communications, open meetings and freedom to blog would be helpful.
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